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Hearts of Iron IV released with day-1 Linux & SteamOS support thanks to Paradox


By Liam Squires-Hand
The latest and greatest available for Paradox, Hearts of Iron IV is now available as a day-1 release for Linux & SteamOS.

What have you been playing on Linux recently and what do you think about it?


By Liam Squires-Hand
Today GOL asks: what have you been playing on Linux, and what do you think about it? So many games, so little time!

Neon Drive, a slick looking retro inspired game that mashes styles together will come to Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Neon Drive is a hard game to pick a genre for, one minute you're in a retro-future car and the next a spaceship. It looks cool and it's coming to Linux.

Jumpdrive sandbox space sim has first Alpha release in many months


By Liam Squires-Hand
Jumpdrive (previously known as Paragon), a pretty good looking sandbox space sim is alive again and the developers have released the first Alpha build in many months.

Defender's Quest DX launching this month, removes Adobe Air and upgrades rather a lot


By Liam Squires-Hand
Defender's Quest is a pretty decent Tower Defence/RPG hybrid that will be relaunching this month as Defender's Quest DX. It will have a bunch of systems and graphics upgraded, but the icing is that it will no longer use Adobe Air.

Rocket League for Linux & SteamOS getting close to a release window finally


By Liam Squires-Hand
Someone pinch me, I must be dreaming. It seems Rocket League may actually release sometime soon after a developer posted about it on their Steam forum.

An EVE Online developer has built an unofficial Linux launcher, game uses Wine


By Liam Squires-Hand
An EVE Online developer has created a native Linux launcher that will download a version of Wine built by the developer.

Hard Reset Redux is showing signs that it is coming to Linux & SteamOS


By Liam Squires-Hand
Hard Reset Redux is a beautiful looking FPS game from Flying Wild Hog and Gambitious Digital Entertainment that is now showing signs of coming to Linux/SteamOS.

Want to be a Youtube star? Well, Youtubers Life a new simulator game is coming to Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Yes, this is a real game. Since Grass Simulator nothing will surprise me any more. Youtubers Life is coming to Linux as confirmed by their twitter account in reply to someone. Soon you will be able to become the world’s greatest video blogger in history, in a game anyway.

Next month marks seven years of me running GamingOnLinux, how should we celebrate?


By Liam Squires-Hand
I need help, I want your bright ideas on how to celebrate running this corner if the web for seven years. The official GOL birthday is the 5th of July.

It's s Friday again, come watch the Friday Livestream at 5 PM UTC!


By Samsai
The past week has been a little bit busy for me but that's no obstacle for the Friday Livestream! Come and join the live Linux gaming shenanigans once again on our Twitch channel, where we occasionally play games and almost always talk garbage!

Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now officially support Linux & SteamOS


By Liam Squires-Hand
Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.

Daedalic's Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes now available for Linux


By flesk
According to a recent update on Steam, the sequel to Daedalic Entertainment's award-winning debut game is now available for Linux.

Point-and-click adventure game Demetrios released DRM-free and on Steam


By flesk
Demetrios - The BIG cynical adventure is the remake of an unreleased adventure game, funded on Kickstarter last year, and is now available DRM free and on Steam.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare adds Steam Controller, Linux & SteamOS support in a big patch


By Liam Squires-Hand
I have been seriously wanting to try this out. The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare is a great looking Unreal Engine 4 title about plastic soldiers doing what they do best.

Substance Painter 2, a feature-filled 3D texture painting app comes to Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Substance Painter 2 looks like an incredibly useful application for game developers to get to work on their graphics and you can now do so on Linux.

The PAYDAY 2 developers now own the franchise, ditching microtransactions, PAYDAY 3 looks like it's a thing


By Liam Squires-Hand
PAYDAY 2 and the franchise as a whole is now owned by the developers Starbreeze/OVERKILL and they are celebrating by removing the need to buy drills to open a safe.

Brigador stomps out of Early Access with such beautiful destruction, a must try on Linux


By Liam Squires-Hand
Oh baby! Brigador is one game you cannot afford to miss out on. It has such beautiful design and destruction that I can't help but fall in love with it.

Steam Machines are dead in the water according to Ars, not quite


By Liam Squires-Hand
Ars Technica has written up an article about Valve's Steam Machines and how they seem to have sold less than 500,000 units in around seven months.

Valve announce over half a million Steam Controllers have been sold


By Liam Squires-Hand
An awesome milestone for such an interesting device! Valve have stated in an update that the Steam Controller has sold over half a million units!